Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolleis a German-born resident of Canada, best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to your Life's Purpose. In 2011, he was listed by Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world. In 2008, a New York Times writer called Tolle "the most popular spiritual author in the United States"...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth16 February 1948
CityLunen, Germany
CountryGermany
This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.
Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.
When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.
Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.
Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger
When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.
You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.